Freelance jobs that require basic writing, coding, or translation are disappearing across job boards. The number of freelance jobs posted on online platforms in the areas in which generative AI excels has dropped by as much as 21% since the debut of ChatGPT and other generative AI models. Some companies are returning to freelancers as they are finding that AI-generated content isn't up to par - while AI-generated material may look good to those in marketing, it often reads as word salad to more knowledgeable people, especially on niche topics.
Completing tasks and reaching goals feels good and makes you feel competent. Most people don't get this feeling from managing people. Management can be demoralizing due to the lack of measurable progress. Contributions are often several levels, and often weeks/months, removed from success events. This is the nature of management work.
Abstractions allow us to think efficiently, but programmers who learn superficially will not succeed on difficult projects that come with known solutions and involve multiple domains of expertise.
Implement fuzzy matching for URLs to redirect users to the right place when they make a typo, a product is renamed, or the logic used to generate URLs changes.
If you're building or scaling a business, achieving compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001 or other in-demand frameworks can unlock major growth for your company and establish customer trust.
Anthropic's newest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is reportedly equal to or better than OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini across a wide variety of tasks. The model performs well in benchmarks, suggesting that Anthropic has built a legitimate competitor in the space. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available now to web and iOS users and will be available to developers as well. Anthropic is introducing a new feature called Artifacts that will allow users to see, interact with, and edit the results of their Claude requests.
Dell announced a return-to-office initiative earlier this year that involved workers having to classify themselves as remote or hybrid. Those who chose to classify themselves as remote had to agree that they could no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the company. Nearly 50% of Dell's workforce opted to stay remote. Many interviewed employees admitted that they were looking for work at other companies that weren't trying to force employees back to the office. Many other companies are struggling to restore in-person work.
SpaceX is rolling out a mobile option for its satellite internet customers. Starlink Mini is a backpack-sized kit designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go. SpaceX is offering a limited number of the antennas for $599 in an early access release. Service for the Starlink Mini will be effectively $150 a month and capped at 50 gigabytes of data per month. SpaceX has not announced when Starlink Mini deliveries will begin.
Gilead's lenacapavir was 100% effective in preventing HIV in roughly 2,000 women in a late-stage trial. The results will need to be replicated before Gilead can seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Lenacapavir could be on the market as soon as late 2025 if trial results continue to be positive.
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AccessorySetupKit is a new API in iOS 18 that gives third-party accessories the same setup experience as Apple accessories such as AirPods and AirTag. Devices running iOS 18 will show a pairing confirmation popup when the right app detects a compatible accessory. The system will automatically handle all the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity required by the accessory. A video showing what the new feature will look like is available.
es-toolkit is a JavaScript utility library with a small bundle size and strong type annotations. It offers a variety of everyday utility functions with modern implementations. es-toolkit is designed with performance in mind and reduces JavaScript code by up to 97% compared to other libraries. It has built-in TypeScript support with straightforward types and useful type guards.
Electric vehicles are still too expensive to be accessible to millions of Americans. High prices, high interest rates, and concerns over driving range and charging infrastructure have chilled buyers' enthusiasm, even among those who consider themselves green. The US government has set policies that hit Chinese manufacturers of cars, batteries, and other components with punitive taxes. It also restricts federal tax incentives for consumers buying Chinese products. While the laws aim to allow the US to develop its own supply chains, analysts say such protectionism will result in higher EV prices for US consumers in the meantime and slow down EV adoption in the US.
New York has introduced two new bills - one will require parental consent for social media companies to use addictive feeds powered by recommendation algorithms on people under 18 and the other would limit data collection on minors without consent and restrict the sale of such information.
TikTok claims that the government didn't adequately consider viable alternatives before charging ahead with a law that could ban the platform in the US.
Google has apparently toned down Reddit's influence on search results that use AI Overviews and significantly dropped the number of delivered AI Overview results overall.
Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI's co-founders and former chief scientist, has launched a new company just a month after formally leaving OpenAI. Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) has only one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. Sutskever has previously predicted that AI with intelligence superior to humans could arrive within the decade, and that when it does, it won't necessarily be benevolent. This necessitates research into ways to control and restrict it. SSI has been designed from the ground up as a for-profit entity. It is currently recruiting technical talent in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
Netflix plans to open two new in-person experience venues in 2025. The locations, which will be in King of Prussia, Pa., and Dallas, will feature a wide array of shopping outlets, eateries, and activities tied to major franchises. The two new Netflix Houses will have footprints spanning more than 100,000 square feet. Netflix doesn't see these permanent retail destinations as becoming a sizable new business segment - it is aiming for them to serve as marketing vehicles that invite fan engagement to support the core subscription-streaming business.
Framework has partnered with DeepComputing, the company behind the very first RISC-V laptops, to build a RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13. While the performance and features of these chips aren't on par with Intel or AMD (a Raspberry Pi 4 is likely faster), the integration is exciting as RISC-V is becoming more accessible. Framework hasn't announced a release date or price yet as the RISC-V mainboard is still in early development.
It's not yet realistic to look for solid-state batteries in production vehicles anytime soon. Semi-solid-state batteries with gel electrolytes still offer significant improvement over lithium iron phosphate batteries. They can be made on conventional lithium-ion battery production lines. Several companies are actively developing semi-solid-state batteries - WeLion, a Chinese company, has created a battery pack that delivers more than 1,000 kilometers of driving range on a single charge.
SQLite, like any other database, has its pros and cons. It's perfect for the majority of applications and scales, and developers can always use PostgreSQL for anything else. Many of the problems SQLite previously had have been fixed. One of the issues with SQLite is that it doesn't allow multiple concurrent writers, but this may not be necessary for all workloads.
There was a lot of hype around building distributed systems using message queues in the late 2000s and early 2010s. That hype seems to have disappeared. One of the reasons for this is because most companies have realized that they're too small for these 'scalability tricks'. Bigger single machines being available for more reasonable prices means that companies are fine running on less hardware. Most companies are better off building well-componentized monoliths that they can break off into independent services later if there's a reason to do so.
SpaceX allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors around every 6 months. This article discusses an internal document from SpaceX about such a tender offer from 2022. Investors paid $70 per share to employees in the offer, an enormous discount compared to the $270 per share during the primary sale that year. The main reason for the price discrepancy comes from employees owning common stock - investors who buy into primary rounds typically buy preferred stock, which entitles them to dividends and liquidation preferences.
Alejandro Caceres, a 38-year-old Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur, wrote a set of programs that kept every publicly visible website in North Korea offline for more than a week in late 2022. Caceres had been personally targeted by North Korean spies who tried to steal his intrusion tools, but had received no real governmental support despite detailing the targeting to the FBI, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. He was adopted informally by a Pentagon contractor and invited to present his techniques to high-level US defense and intelligence officials following his North Korean cyberattacks.
Google has entered into an agreement with Berkshire Hathaway electric utility NV Energy to power its Nevada data centers with advanced geothermal electricity as part of its goal to run on entirely clean energy by 2030.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Coder V2, an open source mixture of experts code language model that supports more than 300 programming languages and outperforms state-of-the-art closed-source models like GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
A lot of our information networks have become more dense, causing us to change the way we see and process information that comes our way and change our culture.
Lambda school, one of the largest educational startups of all time, was never registered in California and was operating illegally in the state for at least two years.
Nvidia is now the most valuable public company in the world. Its market cap surpassed Microsoft's $3.32 trillion on Tuesday, reaching a high of $3.34 trillion. Nvidia's shares are up more than 170% so far this year. Its market cap hit $3 trillion for the first time earlier this month. Nvidia's rise has been so rapid the company has yet to be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock benchmark of the 30 most valuable US companies.
Apple will repeatedly release a cheaper, cut-down version of the Apple Vision Pro at the end of 2025. Development work on a second generation of the high-end model of the Vision Pro has been shelved. Reports suggest that the cheaper Vision Pro will cost around $1,500. Apple is apparently struggling to find ways to cut the price and weight of the device without sacrificing too much of the experience.